C build systems are so cursed. Autotools is obviously horrible, but projects like curl cling to it, because somehow every other C build system sucks too. It's

C build systems are so cursed. Autotools is obviously horrible, but projects like curl cling to it, because somehow every other C build system sucks too. It's frankly amazing how deeply fragmented and backwards-looking C is that this continues to be a problem. In the last 30 years, a countless number of C build systems have been created, and yet an ugly pile of obscure macros outlives them all.